Cinnamomum.] 
CX. LAURINErE. 
1309 
This contains a tannin similar or identical with cinchona tannin ; the amount, seven and 
a-half per cent. One ton of the dry bark yields 770oz. of oil. — K. T. Staiger. 
The leaves and the bark of the young branches contain ^ per cent of true dextrarotatory 
camphor, being identical with the camphor of the Camphor Laurel ( Cinnomonum camphora.) — 
Lauterer. 
The leaves are at times infested with Gla’osporium cinnamonii, Cke. and Mass, and 
Aschcrsonia oxyspora, Berk, and the fruit with Melampsora Nesodaphnes, Berk, and Br. 
Wood pale-coloured, close in the grain, firm, easy to work ; suitable for joiners work. — 
Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 315. 
2. C. propinquum (resembling another), Bail. Bat. Bull. v. 25. A moun- 
tain tree, the branchlets 4-angular. Leaves opposite or subopposite, ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, from 1 to nearly Bin. long, on flattened petioles of 3 or 4 lines 
long, stoutly coriaceous, 3-nerved, the lateral ones vanishing at a little more 
than half-way up the leaf, the reticulation somewhat obscure ; upper surface 
glossy, under surface whitish. Inflorescence terminal in pairs, the terminal 
shoot growing out from between the two panicles .which are about 2Jin. long 
including the peduncle ; branches few, bearing at their ends 2 or 3 sessile 
flowers hoary on the outside. Perianth-tube short, angular segments 6, ovate, 
2 lines long, the 3 inner ones rather smaller than the outer, Stamens shorter 
than the perianth. Stigma scarcely broader than the style. 
Hab.: Summit of Bellenden-Ker, Expd. 1889, leaf specimens ; Mount Bartle-Frere, Stephen 
Johnstone, (F. v. M.), flowering specimens, one of which was kindly sent to me for describing 
in the present work by Mr. J. G. Luehmann, Government Botanist, Victoria. 
This species seems nearly allied to C. ovalifolium, Wight. Ic. 125, of the Ceylon Mouhtains. 
3. C. Tamala (Indian name), Th. Nees. ; Fees. Syst. Laurin. 56 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. v. 303. A large tree with a smooth almost white bark ( Dallachy ). 
Leaves opposite or here and there alternate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, 3 to 6in. long, triplinerved, 
silvery underneath when young with small closely appressed hairs, the older ones 
glabrous or nearly so and showing underneath the fine reticulate veinlets. 
Pedunculate in the uppermost axils, bearing in the Australian specimens (prob- 
ably from a fertile tree) a loose panicle rather shorter or rather longer than 
the leaves more or less silvery pubescent. Pedicels about as long as the perianth. 
Perianth-tube about 1 line, the segments or lobes 2 lines long. Stamens shorter 
than the perianth, some or all apparently perfect but unequally so in the flowers 
examined. Stigma broadly peltate. — Miq. Rev. Cinnam. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. 
Bat. i. 268 ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 17 ; Laurus Tamala, Hamilt. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xiii. 555 ; L. Cassia , Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 297, not of Willd. ; Cinna- 
momum Laubatii, F. v. M. Fragm. v. 165. 
Hab.: Met with in several of the tropical scrubs. 
In India the bark is said to be collected and sold under the name of “ Taj,” and the leaves 
under the name of “ Tezpat, tajpat.” 
Wood of a grey-colour, close-grained, firm, and strongly scented. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods, 
No. 318. 
5. PERSEA, Gsertn. 
(A name applied by Theophrastus to an Egyptian tree.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, or rarely by abortion polygamous. Perianth-tube 
short ; segments 6, nearly equal or the 3 exterior smaller, seldom very small. 
Perfect stamens 9, in 3 series, the first and second eglandulous, the third inner 
series with 2 globose glands at the base ; anthers introrse, 4-celled ; filaments 
villous. Staminodia with cordate triangular heads. Ovary sessile. Stigma 
discoid. Berry more or less thickened and fleshy. Trees with alternate or oppo- 
site penninerved or triplinerved leaves. Flowers paniculate, axillary or sub- 
terminal. 
